By Joy Tiz ——Bio and Archives--May 31, 2009
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“The Mau Mau oath is the most bestial, filthy and nauseating incantation which perverted minds can ever have brewed. I have never felt the forces of evil to be so near and as strong as in Mau Mau. As I wrote memoranda or instruction, I would suddenly see a shadow fall across the page-the horned shadow of the Devil himself.”Little information is available as to the specific language of individual oaths, but we know that the process was taken seriously and had more elements of magic than politics. Kikuyu were under tremendous pressure to take the oath and join the movement. Counter insurgency expert, Major Frank Kitson describes a Mau Mau body snatching raid:
“The gang, frenzied by the thought of blood, slashed around with their simis (a Kikuyu sword) and fired their guns. One old man, slower than the rest, was caught and hamstrung. He fell at the feet of his pursuers, covering his face with his arms to protect it from the slicing swords, but a mouse in a mechanical mincing machine would have had a better chance of survival. One terrorist hacked off a foot, and another sliced off his testicles to use later in an Oathing ceremony. A third gouged out his eyes with a staple and put them in his pocket for the same purpose. When they had finished, most of the gang came by to cut and stab the twitching corpse. They then licked the blood off their simis and moved off into the night; having first set fire to all the huts they could see.” Other writers claim the oath was far more innocuous. However, a 322 page report by Career Colonial Administrator, Frank D. Cornfield supports the seamier version: “By compelling Mau Mau members to violate not only Christian ethics but every tribal one as well, Mau Mau leaders deliberately reduced their victims to a state where a man who took the Mau Mau oath was cut off ‘from all hope, outside Mau Mau, in this world or the next. Cornfield found that to achieve this absolute loyalty to the movement, ‘ . . . leadership forced its recruits, voluntary or involuntary, to seal their oaths by digging up corpses and eating their putrefied flesh, copulating with sheep, dogs or adolescent girls, and by drinking the famed ‘Kaberichia cocktail’-a mixture of semen and menstrual blood.”They sound like earnest freedom fighters, right? Again substantiating that Barack Obama has never known a normal person, his grandfather’s support for the Mau Mau was manifest enough to get Hussein arrested. The struggle for independence from the Brits may have been a noble one, but not justification for the kind of depravity indulged by the Mau Mau. Longtime nationalist leader and Mau Mau manager Jomo Kenyatta studied economics in Moscow in 1932. We are not supposed to make too much of that. Obama has a grudge against the Brits for their abuse of his grandfather, a subversive who supported a bunch of ferocious guerillas. Queen Elizabeth is reported to be “fuming” at Obama’s most recent snub: the Queen was not invited to the commemorations of the 65th D-Day landings in Normandy. The 83 year old queen is the only living head of state who actually served in uniform during WWII. The event will be attended by Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The French government is denying that the brush off originated in their administration. "It is not up to France to determine the British representation," French government spokesman Luc Chatel said. "There will be other 6ths of June." The failure to invite the Queen will be recognized as an insult to the memory of the 17,556 British and 5,316 Canadian troops who lost their lives to liberate France. Expect Obama to allow the media to chide Sarkozy or Gordon Brown for the flagrant insult to the Brits. It’s preposterous to conclude that a word from Obama would not get the Queen invited to the ceremonies. Buckingham Palace is, understandably, outraged. The senior royals were eager to participate in the historic event. The Narcissist in Chief is not about to be upstaged by authentic royalty, nor is he one to let go of grudges. The problem inherent in putting a narcissist in the White House is having a president who will always put his own needs ahead of the welfare of the country. The prevaricator -in -chief could, under the right circumstances be dangerous. The narcissist’s life revolves around maintaining a steady narcissistic supply. An all encompassing lack of understanding the feelings and sensibilities of others is a manifestation of narcissism. Exposing yet again his boundless capacity for insensitivity to others, Obama let his mother read a draft of his memoir before her death. That must have been a high point for Ann Dunham, since her son chose to write the nearly entire book about his absent, drunken bigamist father. In Dreams, Barack Obama writes: “I talked to Jews who’d lost parents in the Holocaust and brothers in suicide bombings. I heard Palestinians talk of the indignity of checkpoints and reminisce about the land they had lost” (Pg 322). This is an astounding passage. Is Barack Obama suggesting that losing land you consider yours or being stopped at a checkpoint is akin to the slaughter of one’s family members by Nazis or suicide bombers? And as always with Obama, rather than deal with his own inner demons, he uses his position of power to act out. Another campaign promise kept: Obama is most assuredly changing the world’s view of America. Perhaps Obama is saving up all the really cool gifts for Ahmedinejad.
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Joy Tiz,Joytiz.com, has been quoted by Ann Coulter, as heard on Lou Dobbs radio, The Rusty Humphries Show, Bill Cunningham, KSFO in San Francisco, WOR in New York, Premiere Radio Networks, Air America and other major shows.
Joy was born in Chicago, long enough ago to remember when many democrats were actually normal people who were just wrong about everything. Joy holds a M.Sc. in psychology and a JD in law. Joy hosts The Joy Tiz Show Wednesdays at 2 pm Pacific/5 pm Eastern.
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